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  • Jem, who hadn't been near Miss Maudie's scuppernong arbor since last summer, and who knew Miss Maudie wouldn't tell Atticus if he had, issued a general denial.   (source)
    arbor = a framework that supports climbing plants
  • When she walked toward the arbors and glanced back at her parents, they both smiled and nodded, encouraging her forward.   (source)
    arbors = frameworks that support climbing plants
  • Our tacit treaty with Miss Maudie was that we could play on her lawn, eat her scuppernongs if we didn't jump on the arbor, and explore her vast back lot, terms so generous we seldom spoke to her, so careful were we to preserve the delicate balance of our relationship, but Jem and Dill drove me closer to her with their behavior.   (source)
    arbor = a framework that supports climbing plants
  • On one side of the highway, acres of grapevines stretched out in soldiered rows and swallowed up the arbors.   (source)
    arbors = frameworks that support climbing plants
  • He raised his head and looked over at the arbour of bougainvillaea.†   (source)
    unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use arbor.
  • His weapon now steadied by both hands, he started towards the arbour.†   (source)
  • Will your Royal Highness be pleased to open Pulverulentus Siccus at the fourth page of his Grammatical garden or the Arbour of Accidence pleasantlie open'd to Tender Wits?†   (source)
  • Bourne dragged him out of sight into a latticed arbour with a profusion of bougainvillaea that reached nearly 6 feet high.†   (source)
  • The Bishop came and sat down in a wheelbarrow that stood at the edge of the arbour.†   (source)
  • They went away and sat in an arbour, from which they could watch the young people practising their shots.†   (source)
  • Father Vaillant was lying on an army cot, covered with blankets, under the grape arbour in the garden, watching the Bishop and his gardener at work in the vegetable plots.†   (source)
  • There are bowers and arbours in these villa gardens and young men in shirt-sleeves on ladders trimming roses.†   (source)
    unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use arbors.
  • From the garden it looked like an arbour.†   (source)
  • We were soon seated together in a little stone arbour, engaged in conversation, chiefly of smiles.†   (source)
  • He slept a good deal after dinner, or basked in the arbours of the pleasant inn-gardens.†   (source)
  • Only one arbour of lilac and acacia had grown fairly well; they sometimes had tea and dinner in it.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER XI Half an hour later Nikolai Petrovitch went into the garden to his favourite arbour.†   (source)
  • The arbour was an arch in the wall, lined with ivy; it contained a rustic seat.†   (source)
  • The next day Charles went to sit down on the seat in the arbour.†   (source)
  • We must make friends though,' he added, and turned back towards the arbour.†   (source)
  • They went and sat down with their workboxes by the waterside under the arbour.†   (source)
  • They were walking on the other side of the arbour, and could not see him.†   (source)
  • He preferred staying out of doors to taking the air "in the grove," as he called the arbour.†   (source)
  • In the arbour was sitting Fenitchka, with Dunyasha and Mitya.†   (source)
  • Fenitchka at once gathered up all her roses and went out of the arbour.†   (source)
  • In the middle of the orchard we came upon a grape arbour, with seats built along the sides and a warped plank table.†   (source)
  • —F to P is the route Skin-the-Goat drove the car for an alibi, Inchicore, Roundtown, Windy Arbour, Palmerston Park, Ranelagh.†   (source)
  • His arbour, as he called the reeking outhouse which he shared with the cat and the garden tools, served him also as a sounding-box: and every morning he hummed contentedly one of his favourite songs: O, TWINE ME A BOWER or BLUE EYES AND GOLDEN HAIR or THE GROVES OF BLARNEY while the grey and blue coils of smoke rose slowly from his pipe and vanished in the pure air.†   (source)
  • …Differences in Spelling § 1 /Typical Forms/—Some of the salient differences between American and English spelling are shown in the following list of common words: /American/ /English/ Anemia anaemia aneurism aneurysm annex (noun) annexe arbor arbour armor armour asphalt asphalte ataxia ataxy ax axe balk (verb) baulk baritone barytone bark (ship) barque behavior behaviour behoove behove buncombe bunkum burden (ship's) burthen cachexia cachexy caliber calibre candor candour center centre…†   (source)
  • …was a park which he owned, near Combray, where, at four in the afternoon, before coming to the asparagus-bed, thanks to the breeze that was wafted across the fields from Meseglise, he could enjoy the fragrant coolness of the air as well beneath an arbour of hornbeams in the garden as by the bank of the pond, fringed with forget-me-not and iris; and where, when he sat down to dinner, trained and twined by the gardener's skilful hand, there ran all about his table currant-bush and rose.†   (source)
  • As we then had no room large enough to accommodate all who would be present, the place of meeting was under a large improvised arbour, built partly of brush and partly of rough boards.†   (source)
  • And the citizen and Bloom having an argument about the point, the brothers Sheares and Wolfe Tone beyond on Arbour Hill and Robert Emmet and die for your country, the Tommy Moore touch about Sara Curran and she's far from the land.†   (source)
  • After I had admired the arbour sufficiently, the youngsters ran away to an open place where there was a rough jungle of French pinks, and squatted down among them, crawling about and measuring with a string.†   (source)
  • In places the wild muscadine and scuppernong vines stretched from tree to tree, making arbours which were always full of butterflies and buzzing insects.†   (source)
  • For nonperishable goods bought of Moses Herzog, of 13 Saint Kevin's parade in the city of Dublin, Wood quay ward, merchant, hereinafter called the vendor, and sold and delivered to Michael E. Geraghty, esquire, of 29 Arbour hill in the city of Dublin, Arran quay ward, gentleman, hereinafter called the purchaser, videlicet, five pounds avoirdupois of first choice tea at three shillings and no pence per pound avoirdupois and three stone avoirdupois of sugar, crushed crystal, at…†   (source)
  • When the ground was strewn with the crimson and golden leaves of autumn, and the musk-scented grapes that covered the arbour at the end of the garden were turning golden brown in the sunshine, I began to write a sketch of my life—a year after I had written "The Frost King."†   (source)
  • Through the bars of the arbour and away beyond, the river seen in the fields, meandering through the grass in wandering curves.†   (source)
  • He thought he saw the signs of an intention among the females to retire for the night; and should he remain, and the fire continue to give out its light, he might discover the particular hut or arbour under which Hist reposed; a circumstance that would be of infinite use in their future proceedings.†   (source)
  • Miss Mowcher untied her bonnet, at this passage of her discourse, threw back the strings, and sat down, panting, on a footstool in front of the fire — making a kind of arbour of the dining table, which spread its mahogany shelter above her head.†   (source)
  • The bridesmaids were quite covered with artificial flowers, and the phenomenon, in particular, was rendered almost invisible by the portable arbour in which she was enshrined.†   (source)
  • It looked over the wall, if you stood on tip-toe; and, with a trellis-work of scarlet beans and a canary or so, would become a very Arbour.†   (source)
  • Adam was wise enough to choose a compact Provence rose that peeped out half-smothered by its flaunting scentless neighbours, and held it in his hand—he thought he should be more at ease holding something in his hand—as he walked on to the far end of the garden, where he remembered there was the largest row of currant-trees, not far off from the great yew-tree arbour.†   (source)
  • Without communicating his intention to any one, the bridegroom proceeded with a palpitating heart to the little sequestered arbour, where he had overheard his bride offering up those petitions for his happiness and conversion.†   (source)
  • Here, Jane, is an arbour; sit down.†   (source)
  • And I know I have seen at home in Switzerland, quite a pretty arbour, with a strong floor, up among the branches of a lime tree, and we went up a staircase to reach it.†   (source)
  • To and fro I paced before this skeleton—brushed the vines aside—broke through the ribs—and with a ball of Arsacidean twine, wandered, eddied long amid its many winding, shaded colonnades and arbours.†   (source)
  • With early light we commenced the next day's journey, directing our course to a point between the sugar-brake and the Gap, where we had once made a sort of arbour of the branches of trees; as this remained in pretty good condition, we spread a sailcloth over the top of it, instead of pitching the tent, and made it very comfortable quarters for the short time I proposed to stay there.†   (source)
  • "One hour," repeated Inez, as she kissed her hand to him; and then blushing, ashamed at her own boldness, she darted from the arbour, and was seen for an instant gliding towards the cottage of her nurse, in which, at the next moment, she disappeared.†   (source)
  • The bottom of his garden joins the bottom of ours, and of course I had several times seen him sitting among the scarlet-beans in his little arbour, or working at his little hot-beds.†   (source)
  • Roehampton is not far from Richmond, and one day the chariot, with the golden bullocks emblazoned on the panels, and the flaccid children within, drove to Amelia's house at Richmond; and the Bullock family made an irruption into the garden, where Amelia was reading a book, Jos was in an arbour placidly dipping strawberries into wine, and the Major in one of his Indian jackets was giving a back to Georgy, who chose to jump over him.†   (source)
  • With the world shut out (except that part of it which would be shut in); with its troubles and disturbances only known to them by hearsay, as they would be described by the pilgrims tarrying with them on their way to the Insolvent Shrine; with the Arbour above, and the Lodge below; they would glide down the stream of time, in pastoral domestic happiness.†   (source)
  • Upon my word, the pains he has taken in putting this little arbour to rights, and training the sweetest flowers about it, are beyond anything I could have—I wish he wouldn't put ALL the gravel on your side, Kate, my dear, though, and leave nothing but mould for me.'†   (source)
  • Middleton was returning through the grounds of Don Augustin, from a visit of duty to his encampment, at that hour in which the light of the sun begins to melt into the shadows of evening, when a glimpse of a robe, similar to that in which Inez had accompanied him to the altar, caught his eye through the foliage of a retired arbour.†   (source)
  • They recalled the arbour with clematis, the dresses she had worn, the furniture of her room, the whole of her house.†   (source)
  • It was in the arbour, on the same seat of old sticks where formerly Leon had looked at her so amorously on the summer evenings.†   (source)
  • And, pushing her gently to make her go into the arbour, "Sit down on this seat; you'll be comfortable."†   (source)
  • The arbour there has done well,' he added, 'because it's acacia and lilac; they're accommodating good fellows, those trees, they don't want much care.†   (source)
  • 'Will he come to me?' asked Arkady, who, after standing in the distance for some time, had gone up to the arbour.†   (source)
  • At the end of the garden, by the side of the water, he had an arbour built just for the purpose of drinking beer in summer; and if madame is fond of gardening she will be able—†   (source)
  • Fenitchka peeped into the arbour at him without speaking, and disappeared; while he noticed with astonishment that the night had come on while he had been dreaming.†   (source)
  • He read aloud, bareheaded, sitting on a footstool of dry sticks; the fresh wind of the meadow set trembling the leaves of the book and the nasturtiums of the arbour.†   (source)
  • She remembered the games at cards at the druggist's, and the walk to the nurse's, the reading in the arbour, the tete-a-tete by the fireside—all that poor love, so calm and so protracted, so discreet, so tender, and that she had nevertheless forgotten.†   (source)
  • 'Here, take it,' she said, but at once drew back her outstretched hand, and, biting her lips, looked towards the entrance of the arbour, then listened.†   (source)
  • One day at seven o'clock in the morning Bazarov, returning from a walk, came upon Fenitchka in the lilac arbour, which was long past flowering, but was still thick and green.†   (source)
  • And you, too, were there, Sultans with long pipes reclining beneath arbours in the arms of Bayaderes; Djiaours, Turkish sabres, Greek caps; and you especially, pale landscapes of dithyrambic lands, that often show us at once palm trees and firs, tigers on the right, a lion to the left, Tartar minarets on the horizon; the whole framed by a very neat virgin forest, and with a great perpendicular sunbeam trembling in the water, where, standing out in relief like white excoriations on a…†   (source)
  • 'Well, there …. in the arbour.'†   (source)
  • And then along the highroad, spreading out its long ribbon of dust, along the deep lanes that the trees bent over as in arbours, along paths where the corn reached to the knees, with the sun on his back and the morning air in his nostrils, his heart full of the joys of the past night, his mind at rest, his flesh at ease, he went on, re-chewing his happiness, like those who after dinner taste again the truffles which they are digesting.†   (source)
  • One day they had lingered rather late; Nikolai Petrovitch went to meet them in the garden, and as he reached the arbour he suddenly heard the quick steps and voices of the two young men.†   (source)
  • Cacambo, who stood sentry by the door of the arbour, ran to him.†   (source)
  • One evening, as we were sitting and talking very friendly together under a little awning, which served as an arbour at the entrance from our house into the garden, he was in a very pleasant, agreeable humour, and said abundance of kind things to me relating to the pleasure of our present good agreement, and the disorders of our past breach, and what a satisfaction it was to him that we had room to hope we should never have any more of it.†   (source)
  • Nay, you shall see my orchard, where, in an arbour, we will eat a last year's pippin of mine own graffing, with a dish of caraways, and so forth: come, cousin Silence: and then to bed.†   (source)
  • "God be praised!" said the reverend Commandant, "since he is a German, I may speak to him; take him to my arbour."†   (source)
  • He looked up and down, until he found The clerkes' horse, there as he stood y-bound Behind the mill, under a levesell:* *arbour<11> And to the horse he went him fair and well, And stripped off the bridle right anon. And when the horse was loose, he gan to gon Toward the fen, where wilde mares run, Forth, with "Wehee!" through thick and eke through thin.†   (source)
  • I will hide me in the arbour.†   (source)
  • The good understanding between the Colonel and Miss Dashwood seemed rather to declare that the honours of the mulberry-tree, the canal, and the yew arbour, would all be made over to HER; and Mrs. Jennings had, for some time ceased to think at all of Mrs. Ferrars.†   (source)
  • So to the sylvan lodge They came, that like Pomona's arbour smiled, With flowerets decked, and fragrant smells; but Eve, Undecked save with herself, more lovely fair Than Wood-Nymph, or the fairest Goddess feigned Of three that in mount Ida naked strove, Stood to entertain her guest from Heaven; no veil She needed, virtue-proof; no thought infirm Altered her cheek.†   (source)
  • To-morrow, ere fresh morning streak the east With first approach of light, we must be risen, And at our pleasant labour, to reform Yon flowery arbours, yonder alleys green, Our walk at noon, with branches overgrown, That mock our scant manuring, and require More hands than ours to lop their wanton growth: Those blossoms also, and those dropping gums, That lie bestrown, unsightly and unsmooth, Ask riddance, if we mean to tread with ease; Mean while, as Nature wills, night bids us rest.†   (source)
  • Then, there is a dove-cote, some delightful stew-ponds, and a very pretty canal; and every thing, in short, that one could wish for; and, moreover, it is close to the church, and only a quarter of a mile from the turnpike-road, so 'tis never dull, for if you only go and sit up in an old yew arbour behind the house, you may see all the carriages that pass along.†   (source)
  • [Advancing from the arbour.†   (source)
  • "We have nothing more for it than to sell our lives as dearly as we can," said his master to him, "without doubt some one will soon enter the arbour, and we must die sword in hand."†   (source)
  • Thou therefore now advise, Or bear what to my mind first thoughts present: Let us divide our labours; thou, where choice Leads thee, or where most needs, whether to wind The woodbine round this arbour, or direct The clasping ivy where to climb; while I, In yonder spring of roses intermixed With myrtle, find what to redress till noon: For, while so near each other thus all day Our task we choose, what wonder if so near Looks intervene and smiles, or object new Casual discourse draw on;…†   (source)
  • They returned their arms to Candide and Cacambo, and also the two Andalusian horses; to whom Cacambo gave some oats to eat just by the arbour, having an eye upon them all the while for fear of a surprise.†   (source)
  • An excellent breakfast was provided in vessels of gold; and while the Paraguayans were eating maize out of wooden dishes, in the open fields and exposed to the heat of the sun, the reverend Father Commandant retired to his arbour.†   (source)
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  • IT'S ARBOR DAY!†   (source)
  • She stops beside an arbor alive with the sound of bees.†   (source)
  • During the summer, in Ann Arbor, we built the Chrysler proving grounds.†   (source)
  • Now the city covered the shore as far as Catelyn could see; manses and arbors and granaries, brick storehouses and timbered inns and merchant's stalls, taverns and graveyards and brothels, all piled one on another.†   (source)
  • He didn't like Ann Arbor.†   (source)
  • On each side was a shady arbor with a latticed covering of jasmine.†   (source)
  • This someplace turned out to be a huge house in the Arbors, at the end of a cul-desac.†   (source)
  • He had a breach of promise with a hairdresser, a widow, who came to Ann Arbor from St. Louis, Mich.†   (source)
  • The best chair, the biggest piece, the prettiest plate, the brightest ribbon for her hair, and the more she took, the more Sethe began to talk, explain, describe how much she had suffered, been through, for her children, waving away flies in grape arbors, crawling on her knees to a lean-to.†   (source)
  • It is a beautiful, restored Provencal farmhouse made of stone, set up on the Luberon hills, fruit trees and an arbor at the front door outside, terra-cotta tiles and exposed beams inside.†   (source)
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  • Mother used to stand in the arbor with an armful of cut flowers.†   (source)
  • Ann Arbor, Michigan†   (source)
  • The patio is an oasis of trees and benches, a manicured lawn and bougainvillea cascading over a wooden arbor.†   (source)
  • I mean, I wasn't exactly a gardening type, but Calypso had arbors covered with six different colors of roses, lattices filled with honeysuckle, rows of grapevines bursting with red and purple grapes that would've made Dionysus sit up and beg.†   (source)
  • It was exciting to move to Baltimore from the relatively small town of Ann Arbor.†   (source)
  • It wasn't unreasonably hot yet, and the kids were bouncing around the house like superballs (this was mainly Turtle, with Dwayne Ray's participation being mainly vocal), so we took them out to sit under the arbor for a while.†   (source)
  • Farther back there was a white garden swing, a fire pit, and a grill under a wooden arbor that was draped with purple-colored vines.†   (source)
  • I discover Razor was the youngest of five kids, grew up in Ann Arbor, where his dad worked as an electrician and his mom as a middle school librarian, played baseball and soccer and loved Michigan football.†   (source)
  • The front of the house had a traditional vato, a shady arbor under which to relax and entertain visitors.†   (source)
  • When Julia, the tall wench, ate too many grapes from Madame Edith's arbor and was sick all night, Areida nursed her, although Julia's friends slept soundly.†   (source)
  • Like Ann Arbor.†   (source)
  • One night I became really alarmed when I stood in the rose arbor watching him for one solid hour, during which he never moved from his knees and never once lowered his arms, which he held outstretched in the form of a cross.†   (source)
  • The broken, dirty arbors served as a refuge for wild animals and a garbage dump for the neighbors.†   (source)
  • A repeat killer of elderly women in Ann Arbor and Kalamazoo, Michigan.†   (source)
  • A few blocks ahead, passing a lovely Victorian house just north of Andrews dorm, Barbara admires the wide, circular porch and an apple arbor alongside it.†   (source)
  • Cico pointed at a green arbor.†   (source)
  • But the details were beyond a child: the fine arbor of blood vessels on his cheeks; muttonchop sideburns dyed bootpolish black; the white ring of arcus senilis around his pupils; gray eyebrows that betrayed his pretense at youthfulness.†   (source)
  • Then, at the suggestion of colleagues at the Ann Arbor observatory, Karp began to investigate meteorites with the intent of determining whether they harbored life, or showed evidence of having done so in the past.†   (source)
  • She said being a Christian made you happy and that bush arbors was times when they was happiest, being full of the Holy Ghost and all.†   (source)
  • We visited a group called the Athletic Mic League performing at the Blind Pig club in Ann Arbor.†   (source)
  • A touring Shakespeare company had let Loma try out after their performance in Cold Sassy's brush arbor and then asked her to join the troupe.†   (source)
  • An arbor of vegetation enclosed her as she waited with her hands inside her raincoat pockets.†   (source)
  • Sometimes he asked Lelia what a municipal employee did on trips to Providence or Ann Arbor or Richmond.†   (source)
  • In the third quarter a flower garden bloomed in so many colors that it seemed to be coolly on fire, and in the fourth a grape arbor produced much of the Giulianis' wine.†   (source)
  • Are you going to stay in Ann Arbor?†   (source)
  • You're having it outdoors, so I might suggest arbors, wisteria.†   (source)
  • Early walked over and sat on the railing of the arbor.†   (source)
  • Clusters of purple grapes dangled from backyard arbors, lavender wisteria blossoms perfumed the air from the great vine enclosing the end of my grandmother's porch, and wild roses covered the fences.†   (source)
  • It was a high brick house set back off the street, with round-arched windows, great heavy dentils along the roof overhang, latticework arbors on either side.†   (source)
  • She knew that Bailey would not be willing to lose any time looking at an old house, but the more she talked about it, the more she wanted to see it once again and find out if the little twin arbors were still standing.†   (source)
  • At the side of the house was a brush arbor, and out of its top stuck a little whittled windmill, rolling in the breeze like a crazed sunflower.†   (source)
  • Yes, in a sort of arbor, hadn't she laughed, leaned forward … and that vision of a facewhich was a little like all the other faces, the trusting child's, the innocent old traveler's, even the greedy barber's and Lethy's and the wandering peddlers' who one by one knocked and went unanswered at the door-and yet different, yet far more-this face had been very close to hers, almost familiar, almost accessible.†   (source)
  • Besides, the Great Masters had burned the best arbors along with the olive trees.†   (source)
  • There was a timelessness to those Sundays: a greenness to its parks and private arbors; the quiet hum of well-dressed crowds gathering beneath the columns of its churches; then the sudden bloom of sails and the gestures of small crews far out in the river; the abstraction of the walkers along the Battery; the pleasant symmetry of eighteenth-century houses clustered along the narrow feminine streets; bells over the city; the shrill robust games of happy children and the healthy glow of…†   (source)
  • She said the house had six white columns across the front and that there was an avenue of oaks leading up to it and two little wooden trellis arbors on either side in front where you sat down with your suitor after a stroll in the garden.†   (source)
  • The firm possession of a yard, a porch, a grape arbor.†   (source)
  • I got to the grape arbor fast enough, but I didn't have the muslin.†   (source)
  • I ask Nathaniel as we stroll over to the arbor.†   (source)
  • So I picked up your basket and carried you over to the grape arbor.†   (source)
  • She stood in the garden on a warm afternoon, the arbor heavy with blooming honeysuckle.†   (source)
  • He could see stables as well, and an arbor heavy with vines.†   (source)
  • "I like the arbor idea," Eve announced, springing up when Mark left them.†   (source)
  • I remember I was at a magic show in the brush arbor and they called me out.†   (source)
  • 'Member … the brush arbor … Mr. Bla'slee?†   (source)
  • We had a dozen milk cows and a bull, a hundred beehives, a vineyard and an apple arbor.†   (source)
  • She thought of the little windmill at the corner of the Haneys' brush arbor that he must have made.†   (source)
  • Then the grinding stopped, and Tater came out of the arbor holding a sickle.†   (source)
  • I call Stuart Robinson while Nathaniel sets up under the arbor and tell him it looks like something has died in the apartment.†   (source)
  • I would have known right away who you was when the sun blotted out your face the way it did when I took you to the grape arbor.†   (source)
  • The grape arbor.†   (source)
  • There lies our summer arbor.†   (source)
  • It was the rooftop summer, still, and she sat in the dense shade of a grape arbor on a Chelsea roof, redwood posts and rafters and a latticework of cedar that was weathered bony gray.†   (source)
  • They went out into an arbor and sat in the warm evening under the grapevines and the soft sky and Ewell sat on the ground and hiked up his pants to show Lee where the bullet had hit, a Minnie ball just below the jointed knee, a vast gash of splintered white wood.†   (source)
  • Dividing the vegetable garden and the orchard, on one side, from the flowers and the arbor on the other was a crushed stone path flanked by hedges high enough so that Alessandro, at twenty, could leap them only with difficulty.†   (source)
  • And Klara looked out through the opening at the front of the arbor, fringed with broad puckered leaves, grape leaves of whatever variety of native grape, and she saw the smoke from a skywriting plane, spelling the name Marie.†   (source)
  • He said he had tried going to bush arbor meetings to git saved, but there was always girls around them too that kept after him to fornicate.†   (source)
  • Eve studied the holograms, tried to envision herself standing under an arbor with Roarke, exchanging vows.†   (source)
  • He said he had found an old preacher who was too old to fornicate, he figgered, because he was holding a bush arbor meeting and was preaching, no-holds-barred, agin' fornicatin'.†   (source)
  • I had figured out long time ago that my mother must have been conceived under the brush arbor — and I blushed to think about that now.†   (source)
  • Stables and other outbuildings surrounded it, and there was an arbor in back, and apple trees, a small garden.†   (source)
  • As Grandpa held her hand tight and tears rolled down his cheeks, I thought how Granny used to tell me about them camping out under a thick brush arbor their whole first married summer while Grandpa and Uncle Ephraim Toy built her a tworoom house out of poplar logs so big it took just five to make a wall.†   (source)
  • Someone in the arbor was using a grindstone, hidden by the propped branches of willow still shaggy with dry leaves.†   (source)
  • Then there was this fancy restaurant in Ann Arbor where I got a job waiting tables.†   (source)
  • "Sweet reds," he cried in fluent Dothraki, "I have sweet reds, from Lys and Volantis and the Arbor.†   (source)
  • I have a dry red from the Arbor, crisp and delectable.†   (source)
  • "The Redwyne sigil," he said, pointing, "for the Arbor.†   (source)
  • I tell him about how I was going to stay in Ann Arbor and wait for Andy to get his degree.†   (source)
  • He had other sons but had never tasted Arbor gold.†   (source)
  • "Come with me to the Arbor, Xaro, and you'll have the finest vintages you ever tasted.†   (source)
  • By night, he'd slip out of Ann Arbor, for that town's opposite number.†   (source)
  • "I mean, you say you want to stay in Ann Arbor…and he'll be in Ann Arbor.†   (source)
  • Then let us send Ser Hobber back to the Arbor and keep Ser Horas here.†   (source)
  • "It is the Arbor we want," said Red Ralf, and other men took up the cry.†   (source)
  • As if that could impress a prince who was heir to the entire realm, from the Arbor to the Wall.†   (source)
  • "I'm not going back to Ann Arbor in the fall, Andy," I say.†   (source)
  • The Arbor, Oldtown, Highgarden …. that's where you'll find your gold.†   (source)
  • Wash it down with Arbor gold and savor every bite.†   (source)
  • The wine was poor stuff compared to the vintages from the Arbor the house normally served.†   (source)
  • His father sold him to Lord Varys for a jug of Arbor gold.†   (source)
  • "Ser Hobber of House Kedwyne, of the Arbor," the herald sang.†   (source)
  • I mean, at least in Ann Arbor I still have my job at the shop.†   (source)
  • They stayed up late into the morning, drinking Arbor gold and telling one another tales.†   (source)
  • They taught me what roast swan tastes like, and how to bathe in Arbor wine.†   (source)
  • One flagon of Arbor gold, and one of that sweet red.†   (source)
  • It might just be simpler to stay in Ann Arbor for one last semester.†   (source)
  • Without the Arbor's galleys, how will we maintain the siege of Storm's End?"†   (source)
  • His back was to her as he filled two cups with sweet Arbor red.†   (source)
  • Joffrey has no strength at sea until Lord Redwyne sets sail from the Arbor.†   (source)
  • They relied upon the Redwyne fleet, presently on its way back to the Arbor.†   (source)
  • So attentive! I almost feel like I'm back in Ann Arbor.†   (source)
  • Symon says there's to be a dancing bear at the feast, and wines from the Arbor.†   (source)
  • Oldtown is richer, and the Arbor richer still.†   (source)
  • There is a flagon of good Arbor gold on the sideboard, Sansa.†   (source)
  • We have Dornish red and Arbor gold, and a fine sweet hippocras from Highgarden.†   (source)
  • The wine was very fine; an Arbor vintage, she thought.†   (source)
  • They used to fight over which would be the next Lord of the Arbor.†   (source)
  • If it please Your Grace, from those rocks the ironmen threaten Oldtown and the Arbor.†   (source)
  • "Buy me a cup of Arbor gold, Hopfrog, and perhaps I won't inform my father of your toast.†   (source)
  • If the ironmen decided to take the Arbor next, the whole realm might soon be going thirsty.†   (source)
  • And when they reached the Arbor, things had gone from bad to worse.†   (source)
  • You see the wonders that can be worked with lies and Arbor gold?†   (source)
  • Only the Arbor has enough strength at sea to oppose a fleet that size.†   (source)
  • Myself, I prefer the taste of Arbor gold.†   (source)
  • He had been no more than ten when he set sail on Lord Redwyne's galleas, the Arbor Queen.†   (source)
  • "We shall serve him lies and Arbor gold, and he'll drink them down and ask for more, I promise you."†   (source)
  • He thought of the Arbor and the Arbor Queen, and almost choked on his tongue.†   (source)
  • She could not rely upon the Arbor for her navy; the Redwynes were too close to the Tyrells.†   (source)
  • From the Arbor.†   (source)
  • His family lived in the Arbors, a development of luxury homes based around a golf course: Their house was on the edge of the ninth hole.†   (source)
  • Aside from my joking, I had no doubts about being accepted at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in their School of Medicine.†   (source)
  • He enrolled first in the medicine program at the University of Vermont in Burlington but found the school too small and after only one year moved to the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, one of the West's leading scientific medical schools, noted for its emphasis on the controversial art of dissection.†   (source)
  • He was moving to Ann Arbor.†   (source)
  • This was the opportunity that greeted Bill Joy when he arrived on the Ann Arbor campus in the fall of 1971.†   (source)
  • Candy and I rented our own apartment in Ann Arbor, and she easily found a job with the state unemployment office.†   (source)
  • We ended up back in the Arbors, cutting through side streets and past the country club to pull up in front of another house, where cars were also lining the street.†   (source)
  • The University of Michigan opened its new Computer Center in 1971, in a brand-new building on Beal Avenue in Ann Arbor, with beige-brick exterior walls and a dark-glass front.†   (source)
  • I thought, This is going to be four more years of Bronx Science [the high school he had attended], and came home, packed my bags, and hitchhiked to Ann Arbor.†   (source)
  • The perfume of the Arbor.†   (source)
  • "Okay," he said to me one night, as we sat on the back deck rail at a party in the Arbors, a neighborhood just down from my own, "what's that about?"†   (source)
  • "The Arbors," I said.†   (source)
  • Rich and functional, they lived in a big house in the Arbors, where up until the year before, she'd been the ideal daughter, pulling straight As and lettering in field hockey.†   (source)
  • "The Arbors," I said.†   (source)
  • From the Arbor?†   (source)
  • Over in the Arbors.†   (source)
  • Arbor gold.†   (source)
  • Ann Arbor?†   (source)
  • From the Arbor.†   (source)
  • There's also a party we can go to in the Arbors, Matthew Ridgefield has a keg somewhere and, oh, and Remy has to dump Jonathan.†   (source)
  • "I know I am," she said cheerfully, pulling out onto the street, the big houses of the Arbors looming on either side of us.†   (source)
  • Ann Arbor, an hour from Detroit, was the scene of what became a landmark court case about prejudice against Black English.†   (source)
  • She lived a few miles away in the Arbors, a fancy development of Tudor houses with a country club, pool, and golf course.†   (source)
  • At Michigan, Cedric didn't live in progressive, tony Ann Arbor, where he thought the people were "snooty and pretentious," but instead in Ypsilanti, a lower middle class, mostly black community about 20 minutes off campus.†   (source)
  • You going to that party in the Arbors?†   (source)
  • I took off my shoes and started across the grass, taking a sip of the Diet Zip I'd gotten on the way home from the party in the Arbors, which had turned out to be a total bust.†   (source)
  • She threw money at Ginny and left us alone to prowl the streets of the Arbors on our way to the pool, or sneak out across the golf course at night to meet boys.†   (source)
  • So long as I hold those poxy twins of his, Lord Paxter will squat on the Arbor and count himself fortunate to be out of it.†   (source)
  • Wine flowed—not the thin pale stuff of Slaver's Bay but rich sweet vintages from the Arbor and dreamwine from Qarth, flavored with strange spices.†   (source)
  • They called at Fair Isle and Lannisport and a score of smaller ports before reaching the Arbor, where the peaches were always huge and sweet.†   (source)
  • When you get back to Ann Arbor in the fall, I'll call you—" A future I can now see quite clearly, as if it were in high definition.†   (source)
  • "We're out of Oldtown," the captain called down, "bearing apples and oranges, wines from the Arbor, feathers from the Summer Isles.†   (source)
  • In the end, Tyrion chose a cask of strongwine marked as the private stock of Lord Runceford Redwyne, the grandfather of the present Lord of the Arbor.†   (source)
  • I mean about how I was going to stay in Ann Arbor until Andy was done with his degree and live at home.†   (source)
  • The two brothers who captained the sister ships Quicksilver and Greyhound seemed sympathetic and invited them into the cabin for a glass of Arbor red.†   (source)
  • One hundred seventeen ravens will carry one hundred seventeen copies of my letter to every corner of the realm, from the Arbor to the Wall.†   (source)
  • While I look for terrorists, I can't help noticing how much better dressed everyone in London is than they are back in Ann Arbor.†   (source)
  • There was enough wine there to keep him drunk for a hundred years; sweet reds from the Reach and sour reds from Dome, pale Pentoshi ambers, the green nectar of Myr, three score casks of Arbor gold, even wines from the fabled east, from Qarth and Yi Ti and Asshai by the Shadow.†   (source)
  • And Paxter Redwyne claimed his fleet would soon set sail from the Arbor, to begin the long voyage around Dome and through the Stepstones.†   (source)
  • This is a very unkind thing to do to people who just sat on a plane for six hours, eight in my case if you count the flight from Ann Arbor to New York.†   (source)
  • Even the sea was closed against them, watched day and night by Redwyne galleys flying the burgundy banners of the Arbor.†   (source)
  • Off the other way, in one of those houses that clung to the walls of the Wolf's Den like barnacles to an old hull, there used to be a brewhouse where they made a black beer so thick and tasty that a cask of it could fetch as much as Arbor gold in Braavos and the Port of Ibben, provided the locals left the brewer any to sell.†   (source)
  • His cupbearer poured a whole flagon of dark Arbor red into the golden wedding chalice that Lord Tyrell had given him that morning.†   (source)
  • This isn't Lizzie Nichols, youngest daughter of Professor Harry Nichols, recent college nongraduate, who spent her whole life in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and has only been out with three guys her entire life (four if you count Andy).†   (source)
  • Stannis walked along the table, past Oldtown and the Arbor, up toward the Shield Islands and the mouth of the Mander.†   (source)
  • The Arbor would have declared for Renly with all the rest, except that Redwyne knew full well his whelps would suffer for it.†   (source)
  • Lord Paxter Redwyne brought forth a beautiful wooden model of the war galley of two hundred oars being built even now on the Arbor.†   (source)
  • What if he hangs out here all the time looking for naive young tourists from Ann Arbor, Michigan, to kidnap and send to Saudi Arabia to be some sheikh's seventeenth bride? I read a book where that happened once…although I have to say the girl seemed to really enjoy it.†   (source)
  • Let us take my pleasure barge and go in search of it, you and I." "The Arbor makes the best wine in the world," Dany declared.†   (source)
  • A quest that took us to Starfall, the Arbor, Oldtown, the Shield Islands, Crakehall, and finally Casterly Rock …. but our true destination was marriage.†   (source)
  • Your son Dale will go south in Wraith, past Cape Wrath and the Broken Arm, all along the coast of Dome as far as the Arbor.†   (source)
  • History of Fashion SENIOR THESIS BY ELIZABETH NICHOLS —Phyllis McGinley (1905–1978), U.S. poet and author Two Days Earlier Back in Ann Arbor (or maybe three days—wait, what time is it in America?) You're compromising your feminist principles."†   (source)
  • Cersei beckoned to her page for another cup of wine, a golden vintage from the Arbor, fruity and rich.†   (source)
  • When that was granted, he pronounced himself well satisfied and suggested that they send for a cask of Arbor gold, to toast good King Joffrey and his wise and benevolent Hand.†   (source)
  • Lord Redwyne asked only for thirty years' remission of the taxes that Littlefinger and his wine factors had levied on certain of the Arbor's finest vintages.†   (source)
  • Paxter Redwyne, Lord of the Arbor, marched down the length of the hall flanked by his twin sons Horror and Slobber, the former limping from a wound taken in the battle.†   (source)
  • The others had to scramble for seats: Lord Mace Tyrell, a heavy, robust man with curling brown hair and a spade-shaped beard well salted with white; Paxter Redwyne of the Arbor, stoop-shouldered and thin, his bald head fringed by tufts of orange hair; Mathis Rowan, Lord of Goldengrove, clean-shaven, stout, and sweating; the High Septon, a frail man with wispy white chin hair Too many strange faces, Tyrion thought, too many new players.†   (source)
  • Hundreds of their ships afflict us now, sailing out of the Shield Islands and some of the rocks around the Arbor.†   (source)
  • I had taken Black Wind around the Arbor to the Stepstones, to steal a few trinkets from the Lyseni pirates.†   (source)
  • If King's Landing loses Oldtown and the Arbor, the whole realm will fall to pieces, he thought as he watched the Huntress and her sisters moving off.†   (source)
  • "Horas was to come with us in your place, whilst you remained on the Arbor as Lord Paxter's page and cupbearer.†   (source)
  • They were raiding up the Mander in strength, and had gone so far as to attack the Arbor and the smaller islands that surrounded it.†   (source)
  • Without the Arbor and its fleet, the realm could never hope to rid itself of this Euron Crow's Eye and his accursed ironmen.†   (source)
  • Last night he feted thirty of the Most Devout on suckling pig and Arbor gold, and by day he hands out hardbread to the poor to prove his piety.†   (source)
  • If so, the two of them were well out to sea by now, sharing a flagon of Arbor gold in the cabin of a galley.†   (source)
  • Later, much later, after the flagon of Arbor gold was dry, Lord Nestor took his leave to rejoin his company of knights.†   (source)
  • And sometimes there were Westerosi too, oarsmen and sailors off carracks out of Oldtown, trading galleys out of Duskendale, King's Landing, and Gulltown, big-bellied wine cogs from the Arbor.†   (source)
  • Lies and Arbor gold, she thought.†   (source)
  • Only the Arbor has sufficient galleys to retake the mouth of the Mander from the ironmen and protect my brothers from their longships during their crossing.†   (source)
  • She sold most of her clams to the porters off-loading the big wine cog from the Arbor, and the rest to the men repairing a Myrish trading galley that had been savaged by the storms.†   (source)
  • With the main strength of the Arbor's fleet on the far side of Westeros, the ironmen had sacked Ryamsport and taken Vinetown and Starfish Harbor for their own, using them as bases to prey on shipping bound for Oldtown.†   (source)
  • I need a cup of Arbor gold.†   (source)
  • The Arbor.†   (source)
  • Some fool makes a law against planting trees and you and me will be out there, like it or not, and we'll shut down Arbor Day.†   (source)
  • It did not occur to her that if she married Ashley she would automatically be relegated to arbors and front parlors with staid matrons in dull silks, as staid and dull as they and not a part of the fun and frolicking.†   (source)
  • Birds were twittering in the arbors and bees were humming in the flowers.†   (source)
  • Early in their acquaintance it had seemed for a while that there was a deep and spontaneous mutual attraction that first August, for example--three days of long evenings on her dusky veranda, of strange wan kisses through the late afternoon, in shadowy alcoves or behind the protecting trellises of the garden arbors, of mornings when she was fresh as a dream and almost shy at meeting him in the clarity of the rising day.†   (source)
  • I always fancy I see people walking in these numerous paths and arbors, but John has cautioned me not to give way to fancy in the least.†   (source)
  • Out of one window I can see the garden, those mysterious deepshaded arbors, the riotous old-fashioned flowers, and bushes and gnarly trees.†   (source)
  • There were no longer either arbors, or bowling greens, or tunnels, or grottos; there was a magnificent, dishevelled obscurity falling like a veil over all.†   (source)
  • No, no—give me the strong places of the wilderness, which is the trees, and the churches, too, which are arbors raised by the hand of natur'."†   (source)
  • In the midst of this moving vegetation, under arbors of water plants, there raced legions of clumsy articulates, in particular some fanged frog crabs whose carapaces form a slightly rounded triangle, robber crabs exclusive to these waterways, and horrible parthenope crabs whose appearance was repulsive to the eye.†   (source)
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